Michael Fernandopulle

Michael received an Sc.B. in Chemical Biology from Brown University in 2014 and is currently a medical student in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge through the NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program. As an undergraduate, he identified a novel role for the proteasome-targeting protein Pup in Streptomyces bacteria with Jason K. Sello at Brown. He is currently interested in studying the roles of spatially distinct pools of RNA binding proteins in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and ALS, as well as in developing new functional genomic tools to uncover disease pathways. He is co-advised by Peter St. George-Hyslop (University of Cambridge).